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26.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: abela <at> chalmers.se, 31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#31796: 27.1; dired-do-find-regexp-and-replace fails to find multiline regexps
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:36:05 +0200

> Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 18:39:33 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
> Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>, abela <at> chalmers.se,
>   31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> * Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> [2020-11-30 18:31]:
> > > Cc: abela <at> chalmers.se, 31796 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > > From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> > > Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 04:25:31 +0200
> > > 
> > > To sum up, there are options, but I don't see a working solution that is 
> > > based on GNU Grep. And that's the most portable search program we have, 
> > > I think.
> > 
> > Maybe we should say that if someone wants to be able to find multiline
> > regexp, they should install ripgrep?
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3717772/regex-grep-for-multi-line-search-needed#7167115

I think this was already discussed up-thread?

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